From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: did anyone see my message re "git smart http server ..."?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:36:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C947A27.6070102@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=-k_qWW2LuUGrq8U_8_cMLYVrMy6j5_s9zkyf6@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/18/2010 05:26 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ilari Liusvaara
> <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:18:20AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
>>> I sent a message to the git mailing list yesterday, with the subject line:
>>>
>>> Subject: git "smart http" server vs. http redirects
>>>
>>> Did anyone see my message? Is there some kind of spam filtering on
>>> the list that might have eaten it...?
>>
>> I searched my own git mailbox, no match.
>>
>> The most important filter on mailinglist is that all messages even
>> containing HTML part are junked. There are also some forbidden words
>> (and word combinations) that cause message to be dropped.
>
> yay. Nothing like ad-hoc spam filters that silently drop messages!
>
Replying to spam is actually worse, since it's impossible to know the
real source address of email. Many spammers used spamfilters to send
spam when the filters used to reply to spam.
Nowadays one usually gets a "here's some spam I'm not sure about" mail
every once in a while, but that's obviously not going to work for a
mailing list.
> My message contained some examples of an http output stream, i dunno
> maybe it's unhappy with some of that...
>
> So... what is one supposed to do in this situation? Randomly delete
> parts of the message and resend it until something gets through?
>
Rephrase it, and possibly get rid of pasted output. I'm sure you've
seen enough spam to know what triggers spamfilters. Removing 'smart',
and especially 'git smart' from the subject line would probably be a
good idea. Levenshtein distance does matter, and 1 is not very far.
It's so very convenient to concatenate with just about anything if
you want to sell something to someone.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-18 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 2:18 did anyone see my message re "git smart http server ..."? Miles Bader
2010-09-18 3:23 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-09-18 3:26 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-18 8:36 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
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